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Bad Weather VS Bad Flu

  Last Tuesday I was feeling ill in campus. I didn't take part in reading class. I had a high fever and was coughing. My mother worried when she was saw me. I told her that I was not feeling well. She felt my forehead and it was quite hot.
  Next morning, actually I must present about city on Listening/speaking class. But unfortunately, I had a bad throat and I coughed a lot. I lost my voice. My mother took my temperature. It was 390 C. So she took me to a doctor. She was very worried. She thought that I had Thypus or Malaria.
  The doctor examined me thoroughly. She took my temperature and looked down my throat. She said that my throat was red, I had a bad flu. She gave me an injection and some pills. she told me to take pills every four hours. She also told that I must take a rest. Me and my mom returned home with the medicine. I took the medicine and went to bed. After two days I felt better. I could go to campus again.
Vocabularies :
*Forehead : The part of the face above the eyes and below the hair.
*Throat : The tube in the neck that takes food and air into the body.
*Examined : To see there is anything wrong or to find the cause of a problem.
*Thorougly : Very much / completely.
*Injection : An act of injecting somebody with a drug or other subtance.

The benefits of mastering English language in Indonesia.


1.      Having (much) more friends. 
 If you can speak English. You can have many friends from the other country. Because
English is an International language. We can see from many social networks on the internet, many of them use English language. We rare see one site that use Indonesian language. So, when you master English, you can chat online, write letters and travel around the world – using one language!

2.   Accelerate your career advancement.
      Most international business is conducted in English. If you want a managerial positions in
multinational companies, most likely you will be required to speak English. A number of prestigious companies now even set a minimum IELTS or TOEFL for potential job applicants. And then, English is not only important for business people. World of technology, aviation, tourism and diplomatic depend closely on the English language.

3. Open the window
wider world
       Many books, magazines and newspapers are available in English. Many foreign language books are translated only into English. If you can read English, you will have the option of reading a much more
diversity, as in the movies.
4. Conquer Internet
       You might think that many sites are translated into Indonesian. But in fact, 80% of electronic information is only available in English. While 20% of the others was not
entirely dominated by Indonesian, but also non-English foreign language, like Chinese, Japanese, French and so forth. So imagine just how many percent of all information on the Internet are presented in the Indonesian language.
5. Being a scientist
         Researchers and scientists around the world communicate with each other in English. Scientific conference held in English and research results are also published in English language journals. Most scientists around the world to read in English.
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Baca secara fonetik


Vocabularies :
- Accelerate    : To happen or to make something happen faster or earlier than expected.
- Multinational: Existing in or involving many countries.
- Required      : To depend on somebody/something.
- Prestigious   : Respected and admired as very important or of very high quality.
- Wider          : Measuring a lot of one side to the other.
- Diversity      :  A range of many people or things that are very different from each other.
- Conquer       : To take control of country or city and its people by force.
- Entirely        : In every way possible.